Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation imperative
  • abbreviation imperfect
  • abbreviation imperial
  • abbreviation import
  • abbreviation imported
  • abbreviation importer
  • abbreviation imprimatur

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  • adjective grammar, not comparable Abbreviation of imperative; also imper.
  • adjective not comparable Abbreviation of imperial; compare Imp.
  • adjective grammar, not comparable Abbreviation of impersonal; also impers.
  • adjective comparable Abbreviation of important; also impt.
  • adjective not comparable Abbreviation of imported; also imptd.
  • adjective comparable Abbreviation of improved.
  • noun uncountable Abbreviation of import.
  • noun countable Abbreviation of importer; also imptr.
  • noun countable, plural: imp. Abbreviation of impression.
  • noun countable Abbreviation of imprimatur.
  • noun countable, plural: imp. Abbreviation of imprint.
  • noun countable Abbreviation of improvement.
  • verb Abbreviation of implement.
  • adjective Abbreviation of imprimé (“printed”).
  • noun Abbreviation of imprimeur (“printer”).

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Examples

  • XVII C (History of the Russian schools of iconography to the end of the seventeenth century) (St. Petersburg, 1856); PETROFF, Sbornik materialov dija istorii imp. akademii khudozhestv (Collection of materials for the history of the Imperial Academy of Arts) (St. Petersburg, 1864-66); VIOLLET LE DUC, L'art russe, ses origines, ses éléments constitutifs, son apogée, son avenir (Paris, 1877);

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Province State, to David Thompson, jun. the sum of five Pounds, in new i44? c'imp. '33i. money, in addition to his pension for the year 1779, ending the

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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